Google's philanthropic tentacle, google.org, has found a strong correlation between official data on influenza from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the number of people searching for flu information on google.com.
Google Trends collects the 100 most popular searches on Google.com. Many of these entries …

RE: GooFlu searches for sickness

Oooo, cool!

Just had a quick butcher's at their "Top 100".

"Insomnia cookies" is indeed at number 2. Drilling down gives this very article as the 4th link though(!), so there's something seafood-related going on here. Still got no idea WTF they are. The top link (insomniacookies.com no less, who'd have guessed?) is fubar, although I'm fairly convinced it's biscuit related and nothing to do with the more usual web cruft.

Funnily enough today, "sperm donor" clocks in at 40 and "sperm donation" at 49. This, coupled with the aforementioned need to filter out the porn star searches, means that the most obvious conclusion to be drawn from all this data is that there must be a lot of wankers using google at the moment.

The other interesting thing is how much the top 100 changes from day-to-day. Google's "hive mind" seems to be full of butterflies rather than bees.

Couldn't see any anime stuff making the top 100 though. Are you just having a gratuitous poke at the Otaku here?

Insomnia Cookies is back up

... apparently it is a site that sells fresh cookies to students that are up late studying at several major campuses around the US. Also they apparently have other insomnia related news and shwag, but my interest tuckered out around then.